Help Recently changed motherboard, and rather than reinstall Windows XP from scratch, I did a repair install instead PC is working fine, and a couple of weeks later, I wanted to create a Ghost backup of the hard disk, however this crashes half way through stating that it can't read from certain sectors on the hard disk Running CHKDSK notes that there are file system errors, however when I run CHKDSK with the /F switch to fix the errors, the PC crashes with the following stop messages STOP 0x0000007E (0x0000005,0xF7A7151D, 0xF&966C34, 0xF7966934) and STOP 0x0000007E (0x0000005,0xF7A6551D, 0xF&966C34, 0xF7966934) I have tried reinstalling Windows XP using the repair option, but this has had no effect on sorting the problem It's a Seagate 20GB drive, tried running their online system file checker, PC locks up solid when it try to repair the errors. Tried their desktop disk untility, which boots from a floppy, but this too crashes Does this sound like a dead or drying hard disk?, as the PC works fine apart from this. I am tempted to carry out a low level format and try and reinstall Windows XP from scratch, can anyone recommend a good utility for doing this?? Also, whenever I reboot the PC, my raid array (which is served from a seperate PCI Raid card) keeps getting reported as broken, and has to be rebuilt. This seems too much of a coinsidence, could it be the power supply on it's way out Hard disk and raid array were working pefectly in the PC before a changed the motherboard, and for some weeks since it was changed New motherboard is a GA7DXR, and the power supply is a generic 400W model from Maplins
It does sound like a dying hard drive, but the important part of the BSOD message is the line after the STOP message. What is it?
well... maybe your disk is dying... maybe not.... got there and grab diagnosis program and and search a little for the low level format utility. Run first the diagnosis app and if things are not sorted, low level format the disk, then format the disk and reinstall windows. everything should work. if it doesn't, the hdd is dying and you might consider to buy another one before all your data is dead...
